Kinds of Construction Lifts or Boom Lifts
Construction lifts are the machinery utilized to enable personnel to go to high-up places without building any scaffolding. They are utilized to do maintenance work, to work on elevated structures and are common equipment found in factory and warehouse settings also.
Boom lifts can usually provide powered and wheeled bases which can drive itself to the work location and have a platform on them to elevate the employees. There are lots of various kinds of lifts and each one is suitable to different kinds of tasks and settings.
Bucket Trucks
Bucket trucks, that are often known as "cherry-pickers", carry a long boom which has a bucket connected at the end. This bucket area is where an employee could stand. Commonly, bucket trucks are utilized by utility workers and by landscapers. Landscapers often utilize these equipment to cut trees.
Bucket trucks are equipped with a boom assembly that is mounted on a standard truck, and this means these lifts are able to travel on roads at normal traffic speeds. This mobility really increases the area they can effectively service. This is specially essential for power companies. For example, a lot of these companies utilize cherry pickers to lift employees up so they could reach and work on transmission lines. The buckets must be frequently checked and correctly insulated as they are working near possible shock hazards.
Articulated booms lifts or knuckle lifts have a work platform mounted to an arm that could bend and reach obstacles. The base of the lift contains a turntable and is capable of turning the lift in a complete circle. The base of the lift is mounted on wheels as well for extra mobility.
Articulated boom lifts are utilized for landscaping projects and are useful for maintenance work on already-finished projects that do not need easy access to the area directly underneath the jobsite. These lifts can be utilized to repair piping or exterior electrical work, and hard to clean areas. Often knuckle lifts are driven by the employee in the platform with the extended boom.